I’ve been thinking about Jake Gyllenhaal for most of this week. Ever since Reese Witherspoon announced her pregnancy, in fact. Remember Jake and Reese? They were so cute. Almost too cute to believe. I can’t believe they managed to stick it out for… something like two years, right? Jake was the first dude Reese dated after her divorce from Ryan Phillippe (Jim Toth was the second!), and it’s widely believed that Reese dumped Jake when the time came. Allegedly, Jake was devastated. He had grown close to Ava and Deacon, and people said Jake really thought Reese was “the one”. Their split happened more than two years ago…and what has happened since?
Reese rebounded immediately with Jim Toth, and they got serious very quickly. Engaged within a year, married and now expecting their first child together. Jake dated Taylor Swift for a few months (cuddlefesting!) and maybe Olivia Wilde for a hot minute. Oh, he tried to get with Minka Kelly, Rashida Jones and Anna Kendrick too, I think. I haven’t heard of Jake associated with a lady in a while, though. So… is Jake still hung up on Reese? Can he simply not will himself to love like that again? OK, now I’m just making myself laugh.
She broke his heart and dumped him two years ago, but Reese Witherspoon still makes the cut with Jake Gyllenhaal – before he reads any magazine or newspaper, an assistant rips or snips out every last photo of Reese because he’s still torching… and simply can’t bear to see her face!
Said a family friend: “You’d think he’s be over it by now, especially since he’s dated many beauties like Taylor Swift, and Reese is now married. But Jake can’t bring himself to look at her photo – and absolutely refuses to see her movies. So before any publications are given to him, Reese stories or pictures are RIPPED! Even if it’s just a photo with a small caption, his assistant clips it out with scissors!”
[From The Enquirer, print edition]
OMG! It’s such a vicious cycle. Jake is tormented by images of his long-lost lover, Reese, so he tries to blot out any memory of her. Meanwhile, his cuddlefesting love, Taylor Swift, is haunted by their time together – time that Jake only spent thinking of long-lost Reese. EPIC.
PS… Who else read Lainey’s blind item and thought “Dimples” was Jake? Right?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.
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